The feds picked me up out of the wreckage and then sold me into slavery because I was too young to go into the detention camps."The table went silent ...s everyone acknowledged that here was someone else who had suffered as the result of the war. Zoë just reached over and silently hugged Jorge.Kaylee broke the silence. "Slavery, how did ya get outa that?" Well, I always was a good cook. A traveling recruiter from House Madarassa tasted one of my meals at a rim world tavern and promptly bought out. Adam ignored it, it would only be Tabitha complaining that he had spilt a drop of grease on the table. "Adam." He waited. "Adam," the distressed voice called.Adam lathered inside his fingers as best he could and rinsed his hands. He heard Tabitha again and groaned, walking out of the bathroom to the top of the stairs. "What is it?"Tabitha appeared, panting at the bottom and looked up. "It's coming," she squealed. "My waters..." What's coming?" Adam asked, his face still scowling. "Oh shit, the. That had been his life ever since he had been inducted into the program at the age of six. Finding another career was not an option for him. And unfortunately, the lack of action had left him with a lot of time to wonder.When his AI partner Cortana had gotten a human body, John had been absolutely thrilled. He had such a close bond with her, and he would have been shattered had she just broken down and died. But an unexpected occurrence had been that seeing Cortana as a human, gazing over the. Blaster was in that latter faction and as much as he liked Pteri personally, he disliked the new Zibong magic. My view was that if the new spells were out there, might as well have someone responsible use it first. Imagine what would happen if someone like Blaster's evil "brother", Spellblaster, the mage behind the averted Zibong invasion, had their magic too!"Is this the entrance to the last cavern?" Alladin asked. So far he had proved quite useful, as we had encountered little but rats. "How.